The Challenge of Urban Government: Policies and PracticesMila Freire, Richard E. Stren This volume examines wide-ranging issues confronting cites, and reviews tools, strategies and practices to address them. It examines nine 'windows' of urban management in the context of the new urban strategy of the World Bank. The book recognizes that cities are crucial in efforts to address poverty and development issues. It combines theoretical discussions of new, fundamental principles of urban management with practical discussions that show how concepts are translated into policy tools and strategies. Chapter 1 discusses the forces of globalization and how these affect cities in general and metropolitan management and governance in particular. Chapter 2 introduces the elements of strategic planning and evaluates successful experiences in city strategy and governance. In light of decentralization, chapter 3 analyzes subnational financial management, particularly its technical, participatory, and political aspects. Chapter 4 deals with revenue raising issues and approaches. Chapter 5 considers private sector involvement in provision of public services, using case studies of public-private partnerships. Chapter 6 discusses the role of land and real estate markets in urban development, and explains why and how local governments should intervene in their operations. Urban poverty is the focus of chapter 7, with examples of how it is addressed. Chapter 8 analyzes problems of the urban environment and preconditions for successful environmental management, with specific urban cases. Chapter 9 examines the relationship between transportation and metropolitan growth, and how to deal with urban transport problems. |
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Page 337 - ... today draw more heavily on far-flung resources. London, for example, now requires roughly 58 times its land area just to supply its residents with food and timber. Meeting the needs of everyone in the world in the same way that the needs of Londoners are met would require at least three more Earths.5 Cities take up just 2 percent of the world's surface but consume the bulk of key resources. Roughly 78 percent of carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement manufacturing, and 76 percent...
Page 331 - Brundtland definition of sustainable development as being 'development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
Page 331 - ... projects and activities. Contributing to the awareness of the importance of indigenous concerns was the role played by indigenous peoples and their supporters at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992.
Page 215 - ... the views expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Corporation. 127 THE NATURE AND FEASIBILITY OF WAR AND DETERRENCE l "A nuclear war is too horrible to contemplate, too mutually annihilating to consider.
Page 337 - For indeed any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another...
Page 371 - ... environment - All the conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding and affecting the development of an organism, or group of organisms.
Page 345 - ... to recover and recycle their products. And Graz, Austria, has created a labeling program to spur small- and medium-sized industries to reduce waste: companies receive the city's Ecoprofit label if they reduce solid waste by 30 percent and hazardous waste by 50 percent.40 A handful of cities are even moving beyond recycling to "industrial symbiosis," where one company's waste becomes another's input. The first eco-industrial park began to evolve more than 20 years ago in Kalundborg, Denmark. Today,...
Page 272 - The estimated amount for which an asset should exchange on the date of valuation between a willing buyer and a willing seller in an arm's length transaction after proper marketing wherein the parties had each acted knowledgeably, prudently and without compulsion.
Page 330 - This approach reveals that the land "consumed" by urban regions is typically at least an order of magnitude greater than that contained within the usual political boundaries or the associated built-up area. However brilliant its economic star, every city is an ecological black hole drawing on the material resources and productivity of a vast and scattered hinterland many times the size of the city itself. Borrowing from Vitousek et al. 16 we say that high density settlements "appropriate...
Page 120 - As regards the local revenue system, prima facie there seems to be a strong case for allowing local governments more freedom in determining local taxes. In principle, local governments should not only have access to those revenue sources that they are best equipped to exploit — such as residential property taxes, income taxes, and user charges for local services — but they should also be both encouraged and permitted to exploit these sources without undue central supervision.
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